ITT Jerome and Pavement Evacuate Louisiana

[Nuke Silo]

whats a prick? and no, i'm not afraid of death... DIE!!!

[GoldenPlums]

The further adventures of Tone on his blurred journey between fact and fiction

This week Tone is working for the emergency services.

The loudhailer crackles into life, Tone puts it to his lips.

Tone- "EVACUATE NOW!"

New Orleans resident- Hey man, no need to shout I'm just stood right next to you. What's the problem?

Tone- "POSSIBLE CERTAIN DEATH!!"

New Orleans resident- Possible certain death eh? Well, that makes no sense but it sounds pretty bad. Almost certainly worse than possible death, probably. You'll have to explain yourself though. Tell me what you think we're dealing with here.

Tone- "DRUDGE REPORT!"

New Orleans resident- Right... That's what you think is it? You know I've seen the news already. I thought you were giving me your opinion.

Tone- "HERE'S MORE!! WWW.IMASCREWBALL.NUT/LOONEY/VERYWINDY"

New Orleans resident- There's no internet here so shouting links is, well, just wierd. What was that anyway? You didn't even say whether you agree or disagree with it. If you have a point to make then make it otherwise stop wasting my time.

Tone- "I HAVE EXPLAINED MYSELF! YOU CHOOSE NOT TO LISTEN! NOONE KNOWS WHAT I KNOW! THE NANOCHEMISTRY OF THE BRAIN DICTATES THAT SOMETIMES HAPPY PEOPLE ARE SAD AND SAD PEOPLE ARE HAPPY. NONE OF YOU KNOW THIS. ALL REAL FACTS WILL BOW DOWN IN HOMMAGE AND PLEAD FOR TONE'S MERCY! NOONE KNOWS WHAT I AM CAPABLE OF OR EVEN TALKING ABOUT. UNLIKE YOU I HAVEN'T WASTED ANY OF MY 25 YEARS ON THIS PLANET LEARNING HOW TO STRING TOGETHER A COHERENT SENTENCE. MY SPECIAL INTERNET WORK IS TOO IMPORTANT FOR COHERENT SENTENCES. NONE OF YOU KNOW THIS!"

New Orleans resident- right, idiot

Tone- "YOU ARE GAY!"



The End.


***Tone 34565: Rest of the world 0, the work continues...***

[Lucon]

Damn that's funny

[DoTheFandango]

So Jerome is ok?

[Theif of Time]

Probably almost certainly.

[Theif of Time]

and no, i'm not afraid of death... DIE!!!

I've always thought that fear is natural, used as a survival instinct. Perhaps your survival instincts are screwed.

[Tone]

Are you kidding Tone? Maybe some of you guys, like Tone, don't understand but hurricanes are part of life on the coast. That said, just because it was a strong gulf storm doesn't mean it's going to be "certain death." Obviously there was significant structural damage and I'm sure there were a few casualties but it didn't "spell certain death for anyone who didn't evacuate." I know I wouldn't have evacuated had I been home. It's a pain in the ass, there's a shitload of traffic, plus then you get back to your house days later to find leaks, etc that could be less damaging had you been around to fix it.

As usual, Tone doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about.

two levees broke today and the city is destroyed. 100s dead already. complete evacuation and martial law ordered. population of neworleans rapidly apporching 0. now do i know what the fuck im talking about?

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[Jerome Scuggs]

For the relative amount of damage, few died. I've been missing school everyday and helping people at LSU-S, and BPCC, and giving them old clothes etc. There's alot of spanish people and cajun people. The weird thing is, most of them are happy. We've also been taking the kids around doing jackass shit. They're lucky to've survived, and frankly, the insurance on alot of the (ridiculously high-priced) housing down there probably will keep them all happy for awhile.

All in all, it's not as bad as the media says. Sure, they might rename it "Old Orleans" or even "Lake Orleans" (oh that'd be neat to have a mutant Kevin Costner give you a tour of Bourbon Street), but hey, at least that godamn Krystalburger was destroyed. God, I hated that place.

[DoTheFandango]

Who's idea was it for them to build it BELOW SEA WATER?!

[genocidal]

two levees broke today and the city is destroyed. 100s dead already. complete evacuation and martial law ordered. population of neworleans rapidly apporching 0. now do i know what the fuck im talking about?

i dont know what you are quoting as far as certain death, the NWS alert i pasted in the other thread did use that phrase in reference to livestock.

I'm well aware of the destruction, nor was I trying to downplay what would happen by saying what I did. A category 5 hurricane making landfall anywhere is going to cause a lot of damage - there's no disputing that.

exactly what i said. i was listening to drudge on the radio last night and he was quoting what some citizens of new orleans were saying. some had no idea that they were facing possible certain death.

So by "possible certain death" you effectively meant anything could happen and anyone could die? Well yes you're right there but that's about the most worthless claim I've ever heard. The T0ne of your post, followed by what you write afterwords, implied you believed this storm would cause annihilation of New Orleans when, in fact, it didn't.

they were all sarcastic about it. the levees and pumps could have just as well failed resulting in total destruction and new orleans under 20 feet of water with everyone dead.

A levee did break, not everyone died. Hundreds have died, yes, and that's unfortunate, but the population of New Orleans is well over "hundreds." The death toll is reasonably low considering the magnitude of the storm.

in such a large population there will always be some crazy suicidals who wont evacuate or have no clue whats going on and think its just another storm. many of them got lucky this time

This is where you proved your ignorance. What I was saying is that it's not suicidal to stay with your home. The people who did die probably were either right on the water (which is suicidal) or did something stupid like drive around in the storm. Your post implied that everyone should evacuate the city (a physical impossibility) or else they're stupid. As usual, you're the stupid one and just because the storm actually did damage - which was never disputed by me or anyone else that it was going to - does not mean you're right.

As far as that shit you said about livestock all I can say is what the fuck. Your post clearly implied and outright stated ("some crazy suicidals who won't evacuate or have no clue...") that you thought Katrina would mean certain death for the PEOPLE of New Orleans. Not the fucking livestock. Go eat your own shit.

[Tone]

the quote of me saying levees didnt break was from yesterday, before the levees broke. so nice try.

new orleans is now destroyed and anyone who stayed took a big risk with their life. the quote of me talking about the people who thought the storm was no big deal was true. there were people who knew nothing of the possibilites of levees breaking and the city being under water. no one in the right mind would stay unless they wished for death. also those quotes were from when so many were sure it would take a direct cat 5 hit with 160 and above substained winds, it turned out it weakened and turned a little eastward at the last minute so to speak. 2 levees busted anyway and the city is now basically destroyed.

Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco said “miles and miles of homes“ were under water.

MORE LEVEE BREACKES EXPECTED; 110 DEAD IN TWO MISSISSIPPI COUNTIES ALONE; MILES OF COASTLINE OF THE US NOW UNDER WATER:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9063708/

Islands of rooftops
That was made tough enough by the vast expanse of floodwaters in coastal areas that took an eight-hour pounding from Katrina’s howling winds and up to 15 inches of rainfall. From the air, neighborhood after neighborhood looked like nothing but islands of rooftops surrounded by swirling, tea-colored water

[Stabwound]

Well that's what they get for building a city below sea level.

Hopefully they don't rebuild; I mean, it would be pretty stupid...

I've heard that it's a lot worse than the news stations are reporting. Apparently there is a big prison riot going on right now as well...

[Lucon]

If I had lived in New Orleans I would have got the hell out. If the roads were congested and there were no flights, I would have just hoofed it.

[Tone]

http://www.unknowncountry.com/journal/

Whitley Strieber Journal Entry

Another summer, another series of weather catastrophes worldwide. Monster rains kill hundreds in India, a gigantic area of Siberian permafrost melts, northern Europe floods while southern Europe experiences its worst drought ever recorded.

And now Katrina, which could well turn out to be the greatest environmental disaster in the history of the United States, and a terrifying warning of worse to come. As I write this, the governor of Louisiana is saying that the situation is "worse than our worst fears" and 80 percent of New Orleans is under water.

At virtually the same time, the House of Representatives, at the request of the Bush administration, cut 70 million dollars from the Army Corps of Engineers' budget for the New Orleans District. Last year, it essentially ended disaster planning for the region by transferring the chore to a private company, IEM Corp., and giving it a $500,000 budget. Now, it has shelved a study that was to determine ways to protect the city from a Category 5 hurricane.

These decisions were made because global warming is "just a theory" and its therefore senseless to plan for such an unlikely event. Additionally, New Orleans is the Christian right's 'sin city,' as evidenced by emails I received from fundamentalists after publishing a request for prayer two days ago in my website's newsletter.

There were hundreds of responses, most of them expressing their own hopes and prayers for the city and the region the storm was impacting. However, there was also another sort of response: "how dare you pray for that evil place. Jesus Christ is killing evil, it is purefication (sic)" and "God hates places like that, Whitley. You shame yourself by asking Him to help whom He despises."

New Orleans also votes heavily Democratic. So the administration therefore had three reasons to ignore the open and obvious needs of the city for proper disaster planning: it was on the wrong side of the political fence; the Christian community doesn't like it; and, anyway, global warming is just a theory.

In fact, weather experts have been warning for years that a confluence of a large cyclical pattern in hurricane formation and record high sea water temperatures in the Caribbean, the South Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico is extremely dangerous. To ignore these warnings even after last year's hurricane season is not simply ignorant, it is willfully, destructively ignorant.

The disaster that has befallen New Orleans could have been ameliorated if the Army Corps of Engineers had been able to examine the levees and if they had been adequately maintained. It did not have the budget to do this properly in recent years and, with the new cuts, has no ability even to repair levees, let alone reinforce them.

New Orleans has been abandoned to its fate by what I have come to believe is the worst administration in American history, even worse than the spectacularly corrupt Harding and Grant administrations. As most of you know, I am a moderate, neither a conservative nor a liberal, a Democrat or a Republican. But I know bad when I see bad, and what we have now is real bad.

Now, of course, they will send emergency assistance, etc., but the fact remains that they have dragged their heels on disaster planning for this city for years, and were preparing to abandon it to its fate altogether. No doubt, the Senate will quietly restore the 70 million to the Corps of Engineers budget that the Administration's congressional supporters scratched.

There is a very basic problem behind all this. It is that American politicians do not understand that nature is, literally, beyond politics, in the sense that nature never does anything except what it must do, and it can be counted on absolutely to do that. Therefore, the job of politicians is not to interject ideology into the equation, but rather to respond to the facts as they appear, and to respect the scientists who make an effort to understand and predict.

Of course there has been a debate over global warming. But after last year's appalling storms, and given the accuracy of seasonal hurricane prediction in recent years, to turn away from disaster planning for the Atlantic and Gulf coasts is not simply an innocent mistake, it is willful negligence. And to specifically single out the largest and most vulnerable city in the United States to bear the brunt of budget cuts borders on the criminal.

There is a larger issue, also. The administration not only doesn't "believe" in global warming, it is taking proactive steps to sabotage the work of scientists who are trying to understand the situation. For example, Congressman Joe Barton, at the request of the administration (a request generated by the Heritage Foundation) is making extreme record demands of climate scientists in an obvious effort to frighten and intimidate them. This outrageous activity is only one small part of a much larger problem: the whole way that the administration views the world, as divided between opponents and supporters is fallacious.

[Turnicated read more at link]

[Theif of Time]

Why the hell would they build a city below sea level? Please tell me there was some logic in this, like it enhanced the water quality or something?

I hope the fundamentalists calling that a purging from god get struck by lightning bolts and/or spontaneously combust.